The Neman Chronicle
Squad18 Jan 2027
Andrey Yakimov damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Mikhail Kozlov out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Neman will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Mateush Montevka says Neman went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Neman
Kirill Veidyger was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Shérif Jimoh
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Luka Gagnidze knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luka Gagnidze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Nikita Matysyuk plays
- Market The Ilya Kirko talk will not go away
- Squad Dmitry Radikovskiy finally belongs at Neman